The LIFE of Pi will be screened at the Witham Public Hall at 7.30pm on Friday 15. Doors and the bar open at 6.30pm. Tickets £5, children under 16 £4, available from Witham Town Hall, call 08450 178717 or book online at withampublichall.co.uk
TWO pupils are £600 closer towards their fundraising target for a charity trip to Uzbekistan. Alec Hunter Academy pupils Chloe Breach, of Beckers Green Road and Leah Boxshall, of Cressing Road, need to raise £4098 between them for their two-week
Essex County Council will send out its fleet of gritters as temperatures drop overnight. The county council, which has stockpiled 15,000 tonnes of grit, has a fleet of 63 vehicles. The movements of the gritters across the county can be tracked
An ambulance cadet who came to the aid of a neighbour when she was hit by a car has received royal recognition. Former Honywood pupil Matthew Harrington-Keeton, of Sarcel, in Stisted, has been a volunteer with the Braintree and Bocking St John
SOUTHEND LADIES 0 PHOENIX LADIES 2 Essex Women’s League division one Phoenix gave their promotion bid a boost by taking all three points at bottom-of-the-table Southend. The visitors took some time to settle and lacked patience in attack in their
Consistency in performances will be the main driver for the progression of Phoenix Hockey Club’s men this year according to coach Carl Wright. Phoenix’s first team are looking to advance from East League division three south east in the next two years
WITHAM LADIES 3 OLD LOUGHTS LADIES IV 4 Essex Women’s League division one Witham Ladies were looking forward to their trip to Old Loughtonians as it was their first game on the Olympic warm-up pitch but they went down to a narrow defeat. Witham
Witham Hockey Club’s men’s first team have their sights set on leaping to the top of East League division three south east this weekend. A 15-1 hammering of lowly Crostyx seconds last Saturday not only gave Witham’s goal difference an impressive lift
The mantra of “yes, as long as it benefits the students” has led to a few surprises for the headteacher in her first year at New Rickstones Academy. Trenica King, who has been in post for just over a year, works on the ethos that if staff feel
Witham MP Priti Patel expects standards to improve at Colchester General Hospital after it was placed in special measures. The move was announced by health watchdog Monitor this morning after last week's accusations that staff had manipulated cancer
A primary school looks set to expand by a third to cope with a rising birth rate. Essex County Council has carried out a consultation on its proposal to expand Silver End Primary School from 315 pupils to 420 from September 2015. The council
Two men from Essex have been arrested as part of a cross-channel investigation into drug trafficking and money laundering. Detectives and financial investigators from the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU), officers from the National
A waste management company is taking charge of recycling centres across the county for the next decade. Essex County Council (ECC) and Veolia have agreed a long-term contract, which officially began on November 1. The partnership will see Veolia
